Guides for foreign investors

The Turkish fund market explained for readers who don't speak Turkish — the questions a Turkish-language site has no reason to answer.

• How does a foreigner buy a Turkish investment fund?

  What a non-resident actually needs to buy TEFAS funds: a Turkish bank account, a tax number, and the constraints nobody mentions upfront.

• How are Turkish fund gains taxed if I don't live in Turkey?

  How Turkish fund withholding works, why it is deducted before you see it, and the question only a tax adviser in your own country can answer.

• If a Turkish fund returned 40%, what did I actually earn?

  Why a headline lira return can be a loss in your own currency, and how to read Turkish fund performance from outside Turkey.

• What do all those words in a Turkish fund name mean?

  Turkish fund names encode the issuer, the strategy, the currency and the legal type. A field guide to decoding them without Turkish.

• Why does Turkish inflation have two different numbers?

  Turkey has an official CPI and a widely-cited independent estimate that often disagree sharply. What each is, and why we publish both.